eate a few new stars through you, and

Yours truly,

CHARLES FROHMAN.

_To George Edwardes, July, 1913:_

First, I am glad to hear that you are away giving your heart a
chance. I am back here trying to give my pocket-book a chance.

_To William Collier, September, 1913:_

All right, all arranged, Thursday night in New York; Monday and
Tuesday in Springfield, Massachusetts. I shall leave here Monday
ready to meet the performance and anything else! I hope all is
well.

_To Viola Allen, September, 1913:_

I was awfully glad to get your letter. First let me say you had
better come to see "Much Ado About Nothing" this Saturday, because
it is the last week. We withdraw it to-morrow night and produce a
new program at once. "Much Ado" wouldn't do for more than two
weeks. After that it fell. Of course I find on Broadway it is quite
impossible to run Shakespeare to satisfying "star" receipts. So
come along to-morrow if you can. It would be fine to have you, and
fine to have some of the original members of the Empire company to
play in this house, and I should like it beyond words. I don't,
however, believe in that sex-against-sex play. In these great days
of the superiority of woman over mere man I don't think it would
do.

_Referring to a young actress he wished to secure, he writes to Col.
Henry W. Savage in January, 1913:_

My dear Colonel: I want to enter on your works in this way. You
have a girl called----. I know she is very good, because I have
never seen her act, but I understand she is not acting just as you
want her to, and therefore not playing, either because she is
laying off, or that you have stopped her from playing. I have a
part for which I could use this girl. Will you let me have her, and
in that way do another great wrong by doing me a favor? If she
doesn't, or you do not wish her to play, perhaps it would be as
much satisfaction to you if you thought you were doing me a favor
and let her play in my company as if she were not playing at all.
My best regards, and I hope this letter will not add much to the
many pangs of the season to you.

_To Sir James M. Barrie, October, 1913:_

As I wrote you, I felt we had a good opportunity here under the
conditions here, and I produced your "The Dramatists Get What They
Want" last ni